Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1887-08-11
w. c. t. U. DEPARTMENT.
For God, and Home, and Native
Land"

IIPPLERS AT \ DiscoUNT.-We
find that a revolution is going on in
business circles regarding liquor
drinkers. Employees upon the
larger railways are forced to be
temperate lest they lose their places.
Col. w. s. Herndon, President of
the Kansas and Gulf railroad, has
for FIVE years maintained an order,
as the "laws of the Medes and
Persians," that any employe who is
known to drink Intoxicating liquors,
either on or off duty, shall be
Immediately dismissed without
remedy and shall never be re.
instated. That law played havoc
at first but it now prohibits. In
many large manufacturing establish
ments the proprietors, in self defense,
have been obliged to require total
abstinence on the part of the work
men. Life insurance companies
have awakened to the fact that the
risk on the life of even a moderate
drinker is greater than OH one who
is total abstainer. Secret societies.
it is said are becoming unwilling to
admit to membership men of
unsteady habits. Society, too, will
discriminate uufavorably till
drinking man will not expect
admission into the best circles, and
homes.
THE BANNER UNION AGAIN!-In
the State journal we find an &C
count of the usual 4 o'clock meeting
at the Jail. We infer that this is
held regularly by the Parkersburg
Union. The warden says that
since these meetings are held, he has
no trouble in controlling the prison
ers during the week. This Parkers-
burg Union means business. The
colored women have been invited to
join them and thus have a hand in
their town of common
enemy. But positively, we are
getting jealous. Is this Union ever
to be in the front?
We infer from an item in the
State Journal that new Jail,
costing n number Of thousands is to
be built there. Just wait till the
carries and you won't
need it, Mr.. Editor. !
We heard nothing more beautiful
ut the Inter State Conference, either
for thought or expression, than some
of the sayings of Mrs. Harper in
her actresses to the colored people
OF our town, She told of a lady
who said that she would not de-
grade herself by going down to save
one who had already fallen. She
then referred to Christ our example.
and added, "And who knew no sin
and in whose mouth was found no
guile, was willing for our sakes to
to be numbered with the trans
gressors."
PROHIBITION IN ATLANTA.-The
atlanta Constellation, and the at.
tdntG Sunny South, have stirring
articles on the triumphs of prohibi-
ton in that city, They state that
the majority in favor of closing the
rum-shoPs, in city of 10000, was
only 235. The change was, of
necessity, very great. At least one
hundred houses-rum- shops-were
to be closed, and nearly five hun
dred m-sellers-turned out
of employment. The city was to
los a revenue, from the sale of
liquor, of not less than $40 900.
Millions of trade would be turned
away from the city; business houses,
especially rum-shops, would be left
unrented; trade, in all departments.
would be sadly crippled; taxes
greatly increased, and with ali this
the sale of liquor could not be
prohibited.
Now, after a trial of twelve
months, it is found that prohibition
can prohibit. Drinking has
diminished eighty per cent; taxable
property has increased $1,000, 900;
taxes have not increased; every
branch Of business except rum
selling, has largely increased, and
some FIVE thousand have been adj
ded to the population Of the city.
The public schools are better at.
tended, and the children better
clothed and provided with books;
the attendance on Sunday schools
and churches has greatly increased,
and some two thousand converts
have been added to the churches
and all this in one year.